[Gllug] Take a look at my photos on Facebook

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Fri Nov 13 22:16:27 UTC 2009


On 12 Nov 2009, Richard Jones outgrape:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:39:21PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> On 10 Nov 2009, Avi Greenbury spake thusly:
>> > [0] Yes, applications should be able to fail without taking the OS with
>> > them. This is still an issue in Windows.
>> 
>> And on Linux unless rlimits *and* process count limits are set, which is
>> very rare because setting them both so low that malloc()ing fork bombs
>> can't take the machine down constrains things too much for most real
>> uses.
>
> One day the OpenVZ folk may finally succeed in merging User
> Beancounters, which solves this problem nicely.

It was never merged? I thought it was merged *years* ago. How annoying.
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